There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.